American people Quote by Theodore Roosevelt

Our American republic will endure only as long as the ideas of the men who founded it continue dominant.

— James Russell Lowell

“For while this year it may be a Catholic against whom the finger of suspicion is pointed, in other years it has been, and…

— John F. Kennedy

But because I am a Catholic, and no Catholic has ever been elected president, the real issues in this campaign have been obscured -…

— John F. Kennedy

I am not the Catholic candidate for President. I am the Democratic Party's candidate for President, who happens also to be a Catholic.

— John F. Kennedy

I am a real Christian, that is to say, a cisciple of the doctrines of Jesus. I have little doubt that our whole country…

— Thomas Jefferson

I hope for an America where no president, no public official, no individual will ever be deemed a greater or lesser American because of…

— Edward Kennedy

Electing the first Catholic president, my grandfather, in 1960, did not mean that religious intolerance disappeared from our land.

— Jack Schlossberg

Of course, no religious test for the presidency - every faith adds to our national character.

— Benjamin Carson

We have a pope [Francis] who's very popular among the Catholic faithful and non-Catholics, but there's no doubt he's going to continue to face…

— Sylvia Poggioli

We don't think well of our presidents when they are serving. Even Kennedy, with such a short presidency, was beginning to lose his remarkable…

— Charlton Heston

The issues which today confront the nation are clearly defined and so fundamental as to directly involve the very survival of the Republic. Are…

— Douglas MacArthur

I think there ought to be a strict separation or wall built between our religious faith and our practice of political authority in office.…

— Jimmy Carter